Hannah Henn

Biography: Hannah Henn Senior Project Manager NYCEDC New York, NY Hannah Henn currently serves as Assistant Vice President and Director of Ferries in New York City Economic Development Corporation’s Ports and Transportation group. Her responsibilities include planning, procurement, management, and oversight of city-sponsored ferry services. Recent policy publications and initiatives include a Citywide Ferry Study, which was released as a preliminary report in December 2013, and Ferry Policy and Planning in New York City, a discussion of ferry lessons learned and service considerations in the New York Harbor. Hannah also has a strong interest in providing equity and job accessibility through transit, and is currently contributing to a citywide transit access study for the City of New York. Previously, Hannah performed structural bridge design work in Philadelphia, and acted as a construction manager for large-scale adaptive reuse urban projects in Providence, Rhode Island. Hannah continued her engineering and construction work for Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Bridges and Tunnels group in New York City before returning to graduate school to pursue her interest in policy. Hannah's interest in transportation policy and planning stems from her childhood experiences living across Southeast Asia and travel to nearly 50 countries. She holds a bachelor degree in Structural Civil Engineering from Brown University and a Master of Public Administration in Urban Policy from Columbia University. (March 2014)